Word: salvo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devastating attacks British shipping had yet suffered. He was aboard a German surface raider (from its speed and gun-power, probably a pocket battleship), cruising the waters between Madeira and the Azores. Said he: "Tuesday we encountered an armed English merchantman. . . . This vessel was sunk by several well aimed salvos and soon only floating oranges marked the spot. . . . Soon after sunrise Wednesday, we saw three tiny shadows. Then we saw five, then six, then eight, and then more & more. We fired a first salvo of medium calibre shells. A fireball went up from a hit vessel and we immediately ceased...
Wolf Sighted. About 700 miles northeast of Montevideo, H. M. S. merchant cruiser Carnarvon Castle (20,122-ton motorship, former star of the Capetown run ) sighted a suspicious vessel, apparently a merchantman, but long, lean and low. The Britisher signaled "Stop!"' The stranger, speeding ahead, replied with a salvo of shells which neatly bracketed the Carnarvon Castle...
...major remaining units of the French Fleet sailed from Toulon on a mysterious mission. Next day the Fleet was reported maneuvering in the Mediterranean. By steaming around in the Golfe du Lion the French Fleet could keep a good part of the British Mediterranean Fleet disengaged without firing a salvo. Mad at Britain over Oran and De Gaulle, and under pressure from Germany, the Vichy Government might thus passively help the Axis to take Gibraltar...
...soon as the enemy raider had the range, she sent her metal over in salvos. One of the first carried away most of the Jervis Bay's main bridge and part of Captain Fegan's right arm. Bawling for more speed from his engines, more fire from his guns, he clambered to the after bridge. Another salvo wrecked the Jervis Bay's steering gear. She steamed straight ahead...
...guns was puzzled by sudden silence above him. He went aloft to see what was the trouble. He found ". . . most of the men dead. . . . About 20 men were being attended to by the doctor. A shell came over and I guess it finished them." The third salvo had carried away another forward gun. Another powder monkey (in peacetime a London cabby) later recalled how after half an hour, "my gun was hit directly. . . . There was a terrible sound and the gun and its whole crew were blown completely off the ship...